Nozzle appliance for cleaning railways.



No. 733,653. PATEN-TBD JULY 14, 1903. F. A. JONES.

NOZZLE APPLIANCE FOR CLEANING RAILWAYS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1902.

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A-TENT FREDERICK ARTHUR JONES, CE PERTH, wEsT N AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA,ASSIGNOR or Two-THIRDS To OLIVER BOWMAN, GEORGE MCMULLEN, AND ARTHUR RNK N, or PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA.

NOZZLE APPLIANCE' FOR CLEANING RAILWAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,653, dated July 14,1903;

Application filed July 17. 1902. Serial No. 116,000. (N 5 1,)

To (all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK ARTHUR JONES, a subject of the King ofGreat Britain, residing at 91 Adelaide Terrace, Perth, WesternAustralia, Australia, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Nozzle Appliances for Cleaning Railways; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

The object of this invention is to efiectually clean the grooves of tramand other rail ways by means of a washing or sluicing process; and theinvention has been the more particularly designed for use in connectionwith street tramways. those of street-tramways, have a well-knowntendency to collect dust and other foreign matter from 0E the road orstreet, and owing to the passage of the cars over the rails such foreignmatters become a solidified mass, and so impair the smooth and easyrunning of the car or other vehicle, as the case may be.

In connection with electric tram or rail ways a further advantage by theuse of this invention results in having that portion of the rail whichhappens to lie between the wheels kept and maintained in a thoroughlyclean condition, so as to obtain an efficient and uninterrupted circuitfor the electric current.

This invention essentially consists of a nozzle or nozzles which is orare in communication with a body of water contained in a traveling tank,and the necessary pressure is ob-' tained by means of a force-pump. Thisnozzie appliance is mounted on the traveling tank, and which tank mayalso be used for The grooves, especially by broken lines, Fig. 2 being afront face view of the nozzle and rail.

In the figures the arrows show the travel of the water, while A denotesthe main feedpipe of the nozzle, and which pipe acts as the dischargefor the pump and leading from the water feed-tank to the nozzle ornozzles and through which the water is forced by means of a pump orother like mechanical means, also mounted on the vehicle, in order to obtain a greater pressure of water than would result from the head ofwater in the tank. B is a branch pipe leading downward from the mainfeed-pipe and is curved and arranged in such a manner as to bringthenozzle directly over and at the desired angle to the groove of the railand as shown in .Fig. l. C represents the nozzle,which directs suchhigh-pressure water on and into the rail and groove and in such a mannerthat a sluicing orscouring action is obtained, with the result that allforeign matter is broken up, ejected, and washed away clear of the rail.

D is a valve for controlling the supply of water to the nozzle, while Eis a pipe and valve for returning any overplus of water back to thereservoir, and such pipe acts as a safety agent to the appliance as awhole.

F is an extension of the main feed-pipe A for the purpose of connectionto the nozzle or nozzles which are attached to the other end of thewatering-vehicle, and G is the valve for controlling the feed-water tosame.

The wheel, as J, of the watering-vehicle H v is shown in approximateposition in its relation to the cleansing-nozzle, while K and K denotethe rail and groove, respectively, of the tramway.

Each end of the vehicle is fittedup in like manner-that is, with a twinnozzle appliance-in order to allow ot', the cleaning operation to takeplace either when thevehicle is on the up or down journey,it beingunderstood that in practice the operative nozzles are those which happenat the time to be the front ones of the water traveler. It is alsoobvious that a nozzle maybe placed in front and behind each and everywheel of the vehicle.

When the appliance is used in connection with electric tram or railways, the pump would be worked by an electric motor, and which pumpwould be mounted on the vehiole and in a convenient place for control bythe driver.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

In an apparatus of the class described the combination of a nozzledirected to the track, a carriage upon which the said nozzle is lmounted, a connection leading to the nozzle from a tank also mounted onthe carriage, a return-pipe for the surplus liquid and a valve tocontrol the supply to a second nozzle, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

FREDERICK ARTHUR JONES; Witnesses;

RICHARD SPARROW, FRED W'ALTHAM.

